New Grey Remote -- available yet?
 

To cut a long story short, I'd like to buy one of the new-style TV-controlling ex-CWC (grey) remotes.

I know the blue Langley ones have been available for some time, but what about the Bromley ones? If I call up CS, will I definitely get a new one, or are they still sending out the old ones?

(And before anybody else says it, yes I checked eBay, but there don't seem to be any there. Plus I'd rather get one from NTL rather than some con-merchant...)

Re: New Grey Remote -- available yet?
 

They certainly are.

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You're 100% sure I'll get a nice TV-controlling one? Not doubting you, just wanting to make sure we're talking about the same thing :)

Thanks!

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I shall double check my facts tomorrow, Tristan.

Failing that, I have a new remote control and a Samsung box on my desk... which I'm not going to give to you :D

Re: New Grey Remote -- available yet?
 

i had one of the brand new ones for around 2 months!! it's excellent, far better than the crappy thin-grey one!!
:)

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Thanks. :)

The Samsung box uses a blue remote anyway, no good for me ;)

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I like my Crappy thin Grey one........ ;)

Better than my (ex) Sky remote anyway, at least the buttons can still be read!!

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YES!!

:D

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Some of you may be aware of my on-going saga of Living the the Leiester LE3 area, and not being able to get digital.

Well, I have now moved to Leicester LE2, and yesterday, I Ordered Digital!!!!!!!!

Will I be getting one of the new style remotes, or an old one?

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If you are ex CWC, then you may well get one of the new Samsung boxes. :)

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Leiecster is ex Diamond Cable, so is an orig area. You will therefore get a black pace box. As for the remote - doesn't it still depend what the installer has in his van?

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Our original NTL box had the remote in the same cardboard box complete with batteries still wrapped in platsic.

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They're not packed like that anymore, they're all seperate now. So yes, it will depend on what the installer has in his van, which should be the funny shaped blue remote (shark remote?) :)

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Tristan, just say to CS that you want the new remote that has the function to control the TV and you like the idea of it. Thats what I did to make sure I got a new one :D

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Tristan, I had one of our DTV guys confirm this for me yesterday, and you'll receive the 'shark remote' as orangebird has just dubbed it.

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I got one of those new blue remotes, the ones with the channel buttons on the face rather than on the side. Its decent enough.

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Thanks very much for the info :)

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are these new remotes still IrDR or do they do RC5 ?

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The grey remote use the IrDA-ish Two Way TV protocol. It has to, as that's all that 1000s and 2000s understand. The blue version uses RC5.

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Well I got one, but sadly it seems to be sans manual.

Can anybody tell me the code for a Sony TV?

Thanks,

Tristan

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I can do if someone can claify that the codes are the same for both remotes i.e. the original area codes will work for the ex-cwc remote and visa versa?

Here are the codes anyways:

316, 319, 322, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369 or 370

Good Luck!

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Cheers Bob, 322 worked nicely, well almost. Pressing * and TV flicks from the cable input on AV1 to the aerial input. Unfortunately it doesn't go back again. I'd rather have it that *-TV cycled through the various inputs on my TV, as a button on my TV remote does. But I'm not really sure if the fault here is NTL's or Sony's (not having a manual, I don't know what the *-TV combination is supposed to do!), so I guess I shouldn't really complain.

Also, further to my original response, while the grey remote uses the IrDA-ish protocol to talk to the STB, it does of course use RC4/RC5 to talk to your TV :)

EDIT: One last thing. Is there is key combination on the remote that functions as "hold" on Teletext pages? Cheers :)

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I have the same problem with the AV functions - its sticks at AV1 which is rather annoying - like the input to be RGB so that the picture shifts back to the right postion but never mind.

I don't think there is a combination for HOLD I have tried * with every button and the coloured ones changed the sound style, picture brightness and screen format. The text button activates teletext, and thats about it.

Inb the manual that came with the remote, it did mention that the remote control functions vary from make to make, so it just depends really.

Out of curiosity on an off topic note, do you find that your Sony remote control stops working and even the ntl: remote stops being able to alter the telly? Mine does and its extremely annoying. The set has to be switched off and on before it'll work agen

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My remote broke :D:D:D:D:D , i live in Langley if i phone CS now, when will the remote be out , and most importantly, Will it be the new version that controls the tv?

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Someone needs to start flogging these on ebay, i'll pay about £7 inc P&P for one...

Theres a telewest guy selling his at £2.50, i got one but theres lots of buttons missing

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One of the clips has snapped on the battery compartment of my remote so the back is annoyingly loose and frequently falls off all together.

So that we don't waste our time phoning CS for no reason, would this count as a broken/faulty remote in ntl's eyes or not?

Cheers,
Browneggsandham :)

Re: New Grey Remote -- available yet?
 

i have a feeling ive read this before, DS?? , if you broke it , then no, if it broke itself , then NEW REMOTE, yay!

Re: New Grey Remote -- available yet?
 

Yes the new remote is readily available on Langley now it has been for a few months, however remember if your old remote is still working you will be charged for a replacement if you say its faulty!

The same remote is available on Bromley now only in grey my friend has been installed a week and she has it!

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OK, this new remote is really ****ing me off now.

It was working OK for the first couple of weeks - occasionally losing its settings, but it wasn't too bad.

Then 2 days ago, it lost it's settings 3 times in five minutes, but then it was OK again for the whole of yesterday.

Now, today, it won't even re-program:
I hold down *+settings. enter the 4 digit Auto-Search code, press OK and then hold down the standby button, but after about 10 seconds, the STB turns off and the button lights up red, instead of green for 'Searching'.

Does this unfortunate fault happen with all these new remotes, of is it just the unlucky few???

Thanks in advance,
Browneggsandham :)

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i dont know the answer to your question however, i have a question of my own,

how come over on DS forums you said the word "****ing", however over on these forums you decided to censor the word?

Re: New Grey Remote -- available yet?
 

I'd imagine it was because DS didn't censor the word, but CF did?

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BY the way, have you checked the batteries on the remote?

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I didn't censor it myself, this forum obviously automatically looks out for certain words.
Kinda like it did in your post, and like it does for that unfortunately named place s c u n t h o r p e :pp

Browneggsandham :)

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lol, i didnt even see that it censored my post as it was on another page, however i put in the " - " quotation mark hoping that it would not discover that word, computers are just getting too intelligent